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Maybe if you had been grabbed from behind, your first reaction would have been to push free, too? Maybe we don't know to this that with what force that police officer was slapped? Maybe this whole issue was played up by Fox News et al, with racist undertones (Ghetto Slut)? Maybe the Dem establishment felt thuis is the right time to drop a controversial leftie? Maybe you are channeling "she makes us look crazy" Wonkette?

I'm depressed that you and Drew are buying into this media narrative.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Tue Jan 29th, 2008 at 03:30:58 PM EST
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I'm not. Really, if you're a lefty in the US, you have to have a thick skin, and generally keep your mouth shut in public, because the degree of marginalization of views which are quite mainstream in other parts of the world is pretty impressive.

It sorta comes with the territory of a de facto one-party state.

Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant

by redstar on Tue Jan 29th, 2008 at 03:35:47 PM EST
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I'd like to point out that you'll find down-thread a bit that I said I'd consider voting for her.  My view of her as being nuttier than a fruitcake was, again, not a result of the cop thing but rather a result of seeing her on television several times.  You're correct about the racism that greeted McKinney in the media, and it wasn't just Faux News.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Tue Jan 29th, 2008 at 03:42:47 PM EST
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I'm sorry; I really don't want to depress you.  I like you and think you deserve to be happy.

If it's not clear by now, I don't think people are always clearly the victims just because they are lefties.  I'm probably a good deal more lefty than her.  I'm a bloody communist.  A person can be a lefty, and even a victim of bad press, and still be nuts.  Did the cop ask for her id because he was racist?  I have no idea.  Was punching him the best response?  Is it ever a good response?  If Denis Kucinich punched someone, would we think that's acceptable because he is a white man?  I wouldn't.  Am I buying into FOX news?  I don't even watch FOX news.  I hope that if I have illustrated anything during my time here, it is that while I may from time to time be totally wrong or raving mad, I am perfectly capable of thinking for myself.  Media narrative?  Me?  Seriously?  

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.

by poemless on Tue Jan 29th, 2008 at 03:44:46 PM EST
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Sometimes a punch is indeed the best response. If war is foreign policy when diplomacy has failed, then certainly a punch can be considered domestic policy where politeness has failed.

And this is true not just in standing up for your political rights; for instance, hockey. (You should go to a Blackhawks game - I understand tickets are quite easy to come by.)

And the Democratic alternative to that punch, which we've been seeing on parade these past few, doesn't even begin to compare...

Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant

by redstar on Tue Jan 29th, 2008 at 04:42:36 PM EST
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I'm a non-violent person, really.

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
by poemless on Tue Jan 29th, 2008 at 04:51:37 PM EST
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that sounds like the sort of comment made having just hit a person.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Tue Jan 29th, 2008 at 05:32:42 PM EST
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Sorry, but if you believe she punched or even slapped a cop... wait, if you even believe there's a prossibility that she may have punched or slapped a cop, then you're buying into the media narrative.

There's no way she did either one -- she absolutely would've been charged.  Cops do not drop charges when one of their own has been touched in any sort of aggressive way, even if the case seems unwinable.  The very fact that they eventually dropped it is evidence enough that nothing happened other than what she and the witnesses said -- he grabbed her arm from behind and she shook him off.

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes

by Izzy (izzy at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Jan 29th, 2008 at 08:13:17 PM EST
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